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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Quotation dates: 1400, 1460-1538, 1600-1605
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Our-, Owrcover, v. Also: oure-, ore- and -cower. [Sc. var. of Overcover.] tr. To cover over, in various precise applications.a. Chiefly const. with (the covering object or substance); also quasi-intr. b. To be a covering for, to be spread over.a. (1) c1400 Troy-bk. ii. 1707.
All sodanely the soft air wes Our-coverit with cluddis blak c1400 Ib. 2487.
So the hole our-coverit was With thornes [etc.] c1460 Alex. (Taym.) 1346.
With orphevris [etc.] … Baith hors and man was this ourcouerit haill a1500 Prestis of Peblis 25 (Asl.).
It [the table] was our coverit and on it breid was laid a1500 Lancelot of the Laik 2646. c1500-c1512 Dunb. xii. 15.
Thornis … Ourcowerd with flouris a1538 Abell 83 b.
His bed wtwertlie wes our couerit with a purpur claith a1538 Ib. 972 a.
He gart cast fowcis … and put scharp pikis in thame & owrcouerit thame with greyn faill 1533 Bell. Livy I. 18/9.
Thir barnys … all ourecoverit sauffand thare hedis with watter 1533 Ib. 69/9.
Than rais the dust of powder fra diuers partis of the ciete & ourecoverit the samyn with maist vile & terribil cloud 1600 Misc. Bann. C. I. 142.
The fouller quha be his craft ourcoueris the poore foull with his nett and catchis it(2) quasi-intr. 1531 Bell. Boece (M) II. 99.
And the luft ourecouerit with perpetuall dyrknesb. 1512 Treasurer's Accounts IV. 218.
Englis skerlet to ourecover my lord princis cradill a1605 Montg. Ch. & Slae 318 (W).
Reflexe of Phoebus in the firth Orecouerit all the knoppis
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